Social Issues

Magazine articles on social issues such as crime, the environment, abortion, wealth distribution, drugs, etc.

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Reason November 2005 Daniel Koffler	Breaking Curfew Citing the European Convention on Human Rights, a 15-year-old brought an anti-curfew suit against the London suburb of Richmond and the Metropolitan Police, and convinced Lord Justice Brooke that he has the right to "walk the streets without interference from police."
Reason November 2005 Kerry Howley	Data: Whose Living Wage? A study by a nonpartisan think tank, suggests that while living wage laws in America do tend to reduce overall poverty, they hurt those who can least afford it.
Prepared Foods November 1, 2005 Bill Hahne	Cooking for the Cleanup In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, foodservice professionals ask, how do you feed people when there is no safe food or refrigeration, no water or sanitation, no kitchens and no way to get into the disaster areas?
ifeminists November 2, 2005 Wendy McElroy	Preserving Culture, or Curtailing Freedom? The Convention on Cultural Diversity (CCD) may be more about trade than culture. Some argue that its vagueness is actually a bargaining chip to be used against the U.S. during upcoming talks at the WTO. But far more is at stake than economics.
Managed Care October 2005 Michael S. Victoroff	What Katrina Teaches Us About Rules & Structures A defining canon of managed care is "Getting the right treatment to the right person at the right time." Katrina demonstrated how fragile this proposition is under conditions of extreme social disorganization.
Geotimes November 2005 Naomi Lubick	Louisiana's Marshland Mess Even before the past season's devastating hurricanes, Louisiana's wetlands were in rough shape. More than a century of building dams, levees and canals to control the Mississippi River changed the wetlands, limiting sediment and leading to soil compaction from the loss of vegetation.
Geotimes November 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Salting a Stagnant Ocean In its Third Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change flagged the potential sudden collapse of the thermohaline circulation in the Atlantic, which warms Europe to its current habitable climate, as a significant source of concern.
Geotimes November 2005 John A. Kelmelis	The Geosciences and Future Foreign Policy The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the U.S. Department of State have paired up in a project to identify emerging earth science findings that are both reliable and have foreign policy implications.
Geotimes November 2005 Steve Quane	A Volcanologist Enters Energy Politics The tragedies in the Gulf Coast exposed to the world an issue that has been of concern for years -- the lack of a comprehensive plan to reduce U.S. dependence on nonrenewable resources, including oil.
IDB America October 2005 Daniel Drosdoff	Benefits That Don't Evaporate How Peru is ensuring that the giant Camisea gas project will benefit citizens, businesses and the environment.
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